{"id":1333,"date":"2010-05-25T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2010-05-30T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T05:51:55","slug":"jenna-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Sweet 16 {Phoenix Photographer}"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My cousin Jenna (Aunt Beck’s youngest) and I (and Jamie), had a blast on this shoot. Okay – minus – the teensy weensy little incident where a man who claimed he was packin heat, said he would have shot me had he seen me standing on the steps outside his door.? There is a story there – obviously.? My mothering instincts kicked in, and I went for a peaceful soothing kind of vibe.? Twenty minutes later, he was sharing his life story and inviting us back to see him.? :)? Don’t think us ladies are likely to ever forget THAT incident.<\/p>\n

Jenna is my favorite teenager.? She is a lot of people’s favorite teenager.? She is compassionate, has a servants heart and is always quick to help those in need, she, like yours truly, is very messy but a quick cleaner, she loves everybody and everybody loves her.? She is the most unpretentious person I know (well her and Ty both).? She has a healthy sense of self but is not critical of others.?? She is not afraid to walk her own road and if no one else is following – so be it.? I have never seen her break a sweat over that.? In fact, I have never once had a conversation with her where she was anxious over what someone else thought.? Not because she doesn’t care – because she doesn’t live in a self seeking world.? She is others focused.??? Obviously I am biased towards this precious young woman but trust me, I am not the only one in love with Jenna.? My sisters will agree with what I have said but maybe more significantly, all of our children will say that Jenna is one of their favorite people.? In fact, 99% of the time, Jodi won’t leave her kids with anyone BUT Jenna.<\/p>\n

Jim and I were both present the day Jenna came into our world and it impacted us significantly.?? It was a deciding moment for us – we were engaged and discussing our future family plans – and we knew (at least in small part) what our future held for us.?? God spoke it through a tiny little baby snuggled and sleeping safely in her Daddy’s arms.? I think all the angels that bared witness to that moment? were applauding beside us.?? It was such an ethereal moment, I could have felt the rush of their wings.?? There are rare moments in life that have the power to impress the soul.? In my heart, I knew my future had changed that day.? I was right.<\/p>\n

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Yes her eyes REALLY are that beautiful.<\/p>\n

Also – I want to credit Jolene Young for the custom crafted piece of art around Jenna’s neck in the above pictures.? The heart is made from New Zealand? paua shell.? It is a stunning piece of jewelry.? Once her shop is up and running, I’ll post a link.? You really need a custom piece.? NEED it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My cousin Jenna (Aunt Beck’s youngest) and I (and Jamie), had a blast on this shoot. Okay – minus – the teensy weensy little incident where a man who claimed he was packin heat, said he would have shot me had he seen me standing on the steps outside his door.? There is a story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guys-and-dolls"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}